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What the Justice Department found in Alameda County

US DOJ found constitutional and federal-law violations at John George Psychiatric Hospital and Santa Rita Jail, including placement of people with serious mental illness in restrictive housing, non-therapeutic suicide-watch conditions, and failure to provide…

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Jurisdiction / date
Alameda County, report 22 Apr 2021
Channel
6 and 2
Mechanism
Federal civil-rights investigation
What is documented
US DOJ found constitutional and federal-law violations at John George Psychiatric Hospital and Santa Rita Jail, including placement of people with serious mental illness in restrictive housing, non-therapeutic suicide-watch conditions, and failure to provide community-based services
Finding or status
OFFICIAL FINDING (county's response in Babu v. Ahern quoting the report)
Limits
Upgrades 2020-CA-ALAMEDA-DRC from ALLEGATION to a parallel OFFICIAL FINDING; the DOJ letter itself to open
Label
VERIFIED (secondary)
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Reference and provenance

2021-CA-ALAMEDA-DOJ

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